The Frankenstein Build! LT/Expo/Trail rig..and BS

ya know what Mark..i think your right. Frankenstein deserves a bath after surgery. Ill do that

Bad ass man! What did you end up with? CBI?

 

NEW QUOTE! PRAISE BE THE DAY!

 

haha i love you have quoted me twice in you sig in like a week.

 

well you accurately described my truck...and i found it fitting.

then you told me i was right...and we all know how rare that is.




dont flatter yourself

 

figure ill post these too now that my Mac is fully operational..

So christmas eve night went out with my little brother in my double cab to the bench north of town. Those of you that don't know, The Bench is a big platteau with fun foot hills and such. We went there to play with some night photography and went a route we were very familar with, but ended up not being able to make it back up the hill as my double cab has..well..not great offroad tires..at all.

So we turned around and went out the long way. Only we came across a snow drift and since my truck has saggy suspention and NO ground clearance what so ever..got it stuck.

We had NOTHING with us for recovery gear. It was all in Frankenstein and we though we would be fine on this little jaunt. Got cocky obviously.

So

After trying to dig out the truck with our hands and rocks and sage brush. We gave up. Called a freind to meet us at the highway, we grabbed the little amount of stuff we did have. Locked the truck. And started running.

15-20 minutes later of running and we were then and picked up.

After Christmas celebrations. We got Frankenstein ready and headed out to save the other truck. Only took a tug and we were home free..had to back out like 1/2 a mile or so to a Y in the road to take a different route. But all was well from there. only took a few photos.


IMG_7728.jpg by Phull Mon-T Photos, on Flickr

IMG_7734.jpg by Phull Mon-T Photos, on Flickr

IMG_7735.jpg by Phull Mon-T Photos, on Flickr

once again..having a shit load of light was very useful..haha

and moral to the story..always always bring recovery gear..every time.

Lucky we were never in any real danger as we new the area VERY well and weren't that isolated to begin with. But was a good reminder.

 

What kind of lightbars are you running Monte?

 

Which ones..haha

 

heres some info from the 1st page

 

Monte, i need help figuring out what i need to run a semi permanent inverter setup in my dads truck, it'll be run directly from the battery to the inverter (in the back seat) but i only want there to be power to the inverter when the ignition is on.

There has to be some type of device that has a signal side that opens/closes a connection, but i don't know/have a name for it, can you help me?

 

Yep.

That's called a relay man.

Should be simple to wire one up for an inverter. Just need to tap the coil side of the relay into a ignition power wire and your good.

 

Sweet, thanks.
In my head it was pretty simple, we'll see when we wire it.

How big of a relay would we need? the inverter is 800w (continuous, i believe) at 12V

 

Big. Big wire too.

66 amps

So probably 80 amp starter relay.

 

Sold my retros man

 

yeah, it ain't gonna be cheap neither, but that's the price i pay for being able to be on my computer playing games or editing photos or messing around in auto cad on the 30 hour drive to MS from CA.

Thanks Monte

 

Dang!

But good to hear man.

You bet. I have a 600w in mine. Comes in handy a lot.

 

About to do another set. Can't wait

 

Yea I have seen em. Looks sweet.

 

No those were my brothers. I just ordered another set a few nights ago

 

Ahhh gotcha. Well sweet.

 

Gonna do an amber halo on outside like PCBuilder and blue demon eye. Your truck is still my inspiration since I've joined this site